1920'S- 30' PILOT DROP CATCH

[Costa]

I added this wing to the collection today. I believe it is a 20's - 30's wing. I did pay for it but, it was the drop in roller lock that caught my eye.

[mghcal]

Very nice wing! I've always liked the shoulder pattern of these wings. Great price as well, I was surprised to see two of these within the same week as there are usually only a handful listed on ebay every year and yours ending second you got the best deal.

 

I also believe it was between the wars. There are some of this type in the aircrew rating but they seem later with incised hallmarks. Here are a couple photos of mine and you'll see the aircrew is a very worn pilot die that was remade into an aircrew. The raised sterling is still slightly visible but they also made an incised mark, it's really not a very high quality wing. Cliff has a much nicer aircrew example on Bob's forum but it also has an incised sterling mark so in my opinion would date later than the raised hallmark pilots. Great pickup, congrats!

[rustywings]

Nice addition to your aerial badge collection. It's a very distinguishable and handsome interwar period Pilot wing pattern! I sure wish we could identify who manufactured these beauties?